“A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.”
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Thomas De Witt Talmage
Thomas De Witt Talmage was an American clergyman, writer, and orator, born on January 7, 1832, and died on April 12, 1902. He was known for his influential sermons and writings in the fields of religion and morality during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more
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